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Canadian Network on Humanitarian History
@aidhistory.bsky.social
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A multidisciplinary network interested in the history of humanitarian and development aid, archives, and NGOs. Website: aidhistory.ca ; List: https://bsky.app/profile/aidhistory.bsky.social/lists/3lpteuw6chq2s
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Join us Monday evening October 6, in person in Ottawa or virtually: "Cold War Consent? Military Experimentation & Research Ethics in Mid-Century Canada," with M. S. Wiseman, History, @uwaterloo.ca Register: tinyurl.com/48hh6r3m@cnd... @activehist.bsky.social @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social
Boy and girl together left; right: the same boy as soldier.
October 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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New @aidhistory.bsky.social blog: "State Funding for the Non-Profit Sector" by Dominique Clément, about the new database which lists grants to non-government organizations (NGOs) in Canada since the 1960s. aidhistory.ca/state-fundin... / @cndhistassoc.bsky.social‬ @insidephilanthropy.com‬
A screenshot of the home page of the database
June 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Tracing the History of Indigenous Women’s Internationalism
An Afternoon with Dr Jonathan Crossen

Wednesday June 25 from 1:00 to 3:00
Lounge of the Department of History of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Paterson Hall 433
Dr Crossen is Associate Professor at the Centre for Sámi Studies at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway & Visiting Scholar at Carleton University, Department of History He will present his work on Indigenous Women’s Internationalism for 45 minutes. An exchange will follow, including a report on the research he is conducting in Ottawa this June on the international aid work of Inuit Circumpolar Council, and discussions on common interests. The event is co-hosted by the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History (CNHH) and Carleton University Department of History. To know more, read Dr Crossen’s blog on the CNHH website: International cooperation between Indigenous peoples in the late twentieth century : inter-governmental undertakings and the history of Indigenous rights, May 5, 2025. A virtual version will be streamed at this address: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/6543041746 Please contact Dominique Marshall (dominque_marshall@carleton.ca ) for more information
May 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"Project on the International Red Cross Movement and the Cold War Divide, the 1940s–1980s" a new post on the CNHH website by @severyandyakonov.bsky.social , post-doctoral fellow @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social : aidhistory.ca/project-on-t... ‪@ifrc.org‬ ‪@icrc.org‬ ‪@icrclibrary.bsky.social‬
Severyan Dyakonov at Carleton University’s Archives and Special Collections, MacOdrum Library. Credit: Dominique Marshall
May 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Join the CNHH for its annual meeting at Congress at George Brown University, Monday 2 June 2025, WLF-401, 12:00 - 13:30. To join virtually, contact dominique_marshall@carleton.ca \ @cndhistassoc.bsky.social ‪@jm-turcotte.bsky.social‬
Canadian postage stamp for the 1965 International co-operation year.
May 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM